Olive Norton (January 13, 1913 - 1973)

Olive Marion CLAYDON, Mrs NORTON (January 13, 1913 - 1973) was an Mills & Boon author of Doctor-Nurse romances. She wrote with her real name, Olive Norton, but also with the pen names of Hilary NEAL, Kate NORWAY and Bess NORTON.

Alan Boon’s most loyal author were passionately opposed to physical sex and, as such, against the trend in popular fiction (set by best-selling “racy” novels such as 19560s Peyton Place by Grace Metalious). In 1957 Olive Norton, new to the list as “Kate Norway”, heaped scorn on romance authors such as Sheila Reid, who, she claimed wrote:

“Positively obscene” stories, “all about seeking lips, and tongue tips, and the perfume that rose between her breasts, and chaps getting all hot and bothered fairly gnashing their teeth with desire”. She added: “I wouldn’t dare. I could make it very D.H. Lawrence if it was just a book, but when it’s a Mills & Boon book, or a serial, you don’t feel you can.” Boon trained, and picked, his authors well.

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First Book – Sister Brookes of Byng’s / Nurse Brookes (1957): Nurse Brookes

Last Book – The Faithful Failure (1984): Faithful Failure (Doctor nurse romance)

Source: Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon

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Fanny Heaslip Lea (October 30, 1884 - January 13, 1955)

Fannie Heaslip Lea (October 30, 1884, New Orleans, Louisiana - January 13, 1955, New York, New York) was an American author and poet, best known for her poem "The Dead Faith".

Fannie Heaslip Lea, the daughter of a newspaperman (James J. Lea) and Margaret Heaslip Lea, quickly took up the journalist's trade. She wrote class poems and plays and edited the Newcomb College (New Orleans) yearbook. After receiving a B.A. from Newcomb in 1904, Lea did graduate work in English at Tulane University in Louisiana for two years. From 1906 to 1911, she wrote feature articles for the New Orleans daily newspapers and short stories for national magazines such as Harper's and Woman's Home Companion.

After her marriage with Hamilton P. Agee in 1911, she moved with her husband to Honolulu, where he had accepted a position. She continued to write prolifically, undeterred by the birth of a daughter. After her divorce from Agee in 1926, she took up residence in New York, where she published 19 novels and more than 100 stories, poems, and essays in newspapers and journals like Good Housekeeping, Collier's, and the Saturday Evening Post. An Episcopalian, Lea was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Authors' League of America and a regular contributor to philanthropies.

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First Book - Quicksands (1911): Quicksands

Last Book - Verses for Lovers (and Some Others) (1955): Verses for lovers, And some others

Source: http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/aww_03/aww_03_00706.html

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Fanny Heaslip Lea (October 30, 1884 - January 13, 1955)

Fannie Heaslip Lea (October 30, 1884, New Orleans, Louisiana - January 13, 1955, New York, New York) was an American author and poet, best known for her poem "The Dead Faith".

Fannie Heaslip Lea, the daughter of a newspaperman (James J. Lea) and Margaret Heaslip Lea, quickly took up the journalist's trade. She wrote class poems and plays and edited the Newcomb College (New Orleans) yearbook. After receiving a B.A. from Newcomb in 1904, Lea did graduate work in English at Tulane University in Louisiana for two years. From 1906 to 1911, she wrote feature articles for the New Orleans daily newspapers and short stories for national magazines such as Harper's and Woman's Home Companion.

After her marriage with Hamilton P. Agee in 1911, she moved with her husband to Honolulu, where he had accepted a position. She continued to write prolifically, undeterred by the birth of a daughter. After her divorce from Agee in 1926, she took up residence in New York, where she published 19 novels and more than 100 stories, poems, and essays in newspapers and journals like Good Housekeeping, Collier's, and the Saturday Evening Post. An Episcopalian, Lea was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Authors' League of America and a regular contributor to philanthropies.

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First Book - Quicksands (1911): Quicksands

Last Book - Verses for Lovers (and Some Others) (1955): Verses for lovers, And some others

Source: http://www.novelguide.com/a/discover/aww_03/aww_03_00706.html

( Dell Mapback Cover )

Olive Norton (January 13, 1913 - 1973)

Olive Marion CLAYDON, Mrs NORTON (January 13, 1913 - 1973) was an Mills & Boon author of Doctor-Nurse romances. She wrote with her real name, Olive Norton, but also with the pen names of Hilary NEAL, Kate NORWAY and Bess NORTON.

Alan Boon’s most loyal author were passionately opposed to physical sex and, as such, against the trend in popular fiction (set by best-selling “racy” novels such as 19560s Peyton Place by Grace Metalious). In 1957 Olive Norton, new to the list as “Kate Norway”, heaped scorn on romance authors such as Sheila Reid, who, she claimed wrote:

“Positively obscene” stories, “all about seeking lips, and tongue tips, and the perfume that rose between her breasts, and chaps getting all hot and bothered fairly gnashing their teeth with desire”. She added: “I wouldn’t dare. I could make it very D.H. Lawrence if it was just a book, but when it’s a Mills & Boon book, or a serial, you don’t feel you can.” Boon trained, and picked, his authors well.

( Read more... )

First Book – Sister Brookes of Byng’s / Nurse Brookes (1957): Nurse Brookes

Last Book – The Faithful Failure (1984): Faithful Failure (Doctor nurse romance)

Source: Passion's Fortune: The Story of Mills & Boon

( Vintage Covers )

Cheek to Cheek by Chris Owen

Cheek to Cheek is a pretty good love story since is romantic enough to make you dream but real enough to give you the feeling it can be possible.

Mallory is probably one of the few real bisexual men I have “met” in a romance; he is married to a woman, but his marriage is at the end, and for once the reason is not that his repressed sexuality wants to come out (pun very much intended), indeed I think he is going through an early middle life crisis. It happens that Mallory, before his wife Trish, whom he has never cheated while they were married, had relationships both with women than men; he liked his women small and petite, feminine, and his men big and strong, masculine. At only two weeks since the break up, Mallory is cruised in a bar by Will, a very handsome, and slightly young, Afro-American man. Will can dance, and Mallory has a soft spot for who can dance, and so from a ballroom to a bedroom the step is fast… only to awaken the morning after and finding out that Will is his new co-worker at the fire station.

Sincerely there is not much drama in this story; as I said at the beginning it’s mostly romantic, and I liked how the author dealt the relationship between Mallory and his ex-wife Trish, with the right dose of hurting but not with a desire of vengeance, both Mallory and Trish proved to be adult and capable of thinking.

I also liked that Will was able, and willing to wait for Mallory: at only 2 weeks from a failed marriage, it would have been impossible, and dangerous, for Mallory to falls over heels for another person, a colleague moreover. I don’t know if Will realized that giving Mallory space he did the right thing to capture the man, but that is exactly what happened. Plus Will didn’t prevent Mallory from meeting with his ex-wife, he was not jealous, at least not after he was certain that Mallory was not putting him in the “dirty little secret” closet.

There is the right dose of sex, good and with that touch of “down to earth” feeling that makes it enjoyable since you can relate, these are two ordinary men, falling in love and enjoying every moment of it.

Cheek to Cheek is losely connected to 911, but it can be read as standalone.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2012

Amazon: Cheek to Cheek
Amazon Kindle: Cheek to Cheek
Paperback: 178 pages
Publisher: Torquere Press (June 10, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603707352
ISBN-13: 978-1603707350

Series:
1) 911
2) Cheek to Cheek

Reading List:



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Cheek to Cheek by Chris Owen

Cheek to Cheek is a pretty good love story since is romantic enough to make you dream but real enough to give you the feeling it can be possible.

Mallory is probably one of the few real bisexual men I have “met” in a romance; he is married to a woman, but his marriage is at the end, and for once the reason is not that his repressed sexuality wants to come out (pun very much intended), indeed I think he is going through an early middle life crisis. It happens that Mallory, before his wife Trish, whom he has never cheated while they were married, had relationships both with women than men; he liked his women small and petite, feminine, and his men big and strong, masculine. At only two weeks since the break up, Mallory is cruised in a bar by Will, a very handsome, and slightly young, Afro-American man. Will can dance, and Mallory has a soft spot for who can dance, and so from a ballroom to a bedroom the step is fast… only to awaken the morning after and finding out that Will is his new co-worker at the fire station.

Sincerely there is not much drama in this story; as I said at the beginning it’s mostly romantic, and I liked how the author dealt the relationship between Mallory and his ex-wife Trish, with the right dose of hurting but not with a desire of vengeance, both Mallory and Trish proved to be adult and capable of thinking.

I also liked that Will was able, and willing to wait for Mallory: at only 2 weeks from a failed marriage, it would have been impossible, and dangerous, for Mallory to falls over heels for another person, a colleague moreover. I don’t know if Will realized that giving Mallory space he did the right thing to capture the man, but that is exactly what happened. Plus Will didn’t prevent Mallory from meeting with his ex-wife, he was not jealous, at least not after he was certain that Mallory was not putting him in the “dirty little secret” closet.

There is the right dose of sex, good and with that touch of “down to earth” feeling that makes it enjoyable since you can relate, these are two ordinary men, falling in love and enjoying every moment of it.

Cheek to Cheek is losely connected to 911, but it can be read as standalone.

http://www.torquerebooks.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=2012

Amazon: Cheek to Cheek
Amazon Kindle: Cheek to Cheek
Paperback: 178 pages
Publisher: Torquere Press (June 10, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1603707352
ISBN-13: 978-1603707350

Series:
1) 911
2) Cheek to Cheek

Reading List:



http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle